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Ulmus × viminalis Lodd. Aurea is an elm hybrid cultivar derived from the crossing U. minor subsp. minor x U. minor var. plotii Druce raised before 1866 by Rosseel of Louvain. It is distinguished by its suffused golden yellow leaves in early summer, greening as the season progresses. However, owing to susceptibility to Dutch elm disease, the tree is no longer commercially available in the UK, although it is still cultivated in the USA. A grafted specimen survived at Kew in 1913, but is not known to remain in cultivation.
[edit] Arboreta etc. accessions
[edit] North America
None known.
[edit] Europe
[edit] Nurseries
[edit] North America
- ForestFarm Nurseries [1], Williams, Oregon.
[edit] Synonymy
- Ulmus campestris var. antarctica aurea: Nicholson, Kew Hand List Trees & Shrubs, ii, 135, 1896.
- Ulmus campestris var. aurea.: Morren: Belg. Hort., p. 356, 1866, (coloured plate), and Lemaire: Illust. Hort. t 513, 1867.
- Ulmus campestris var. Rosscelsii Schelle, in Beissner et al., Handb. Laubh.-Benenn., 83, 1903, = misspelling of Rosseelsii.
- Ulmus rosseelsii: Koch, Dendr. 2 (1): 412, 1872, in synonymy.
[edit] References
- Bean, W. J. (1980) Trees and shrubs hardy in Great Britain. 8th edition. Murray's, London.
- Elwes, H. J. & Henry, A. (1913). The Trees of Great Britain & Ireland. Vol. VII. pp 1848-1929. Private publication. [2]
- Green, P. S. (1964). Registration of cultivar names in Ulmus. Arnoldia, Vol. 24. Arnold Arboretum, Harvard University. [3]
- Hilliers' Manual of Trees & Shrubs. (1977). David & Charles, Newton Abbot, UK.
